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We support #Wallonia and its prime minister Paul #Magnette #for courageously standing up against CETA.

We ask you to stop bullying Wallonia and the #Brussels region for their #democratic decision to oppose CETA. The EU-Canada trade deal must be completely renegotiated to remove any special rights for #corporations -- at the minimum.

Petition

We support #Wallonia and its prime minister Paul #Magnette #for courageously standing up against CETA.

We ask you to stop bullying Wallonia and the #Brussels region for their #democratic decision to oppose CETA. The EU-Canada trade deal must be completely renegotiated to remove any special rights for #corporations -- at the minimum.

Forbes:

Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050

Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it’s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale.

Species are going extinct at a rate 1,000 times faster than that of the natural rate over the previous 65 million years (see Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School).

Since 2000, 6 million hectares of primary forest have been lost each year. That’s 14,826,322 acres, or just less than the entire state of West Virginia (see the 2010 assessment by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN).

Even in the U.S., 15% of the population lives below the poverty line. For children under the age of 18, that number increases to 20% (see U.S. Census).

This Infographic Shows How Only 10 Companies Own All The World’s Brands

In order to visually elucidate that point, Oxfam International created a comprehensive infographic that reveals the extensive reach of the “Big 10” food and beverage companies.

Obviously, the horrors extend far beyond our own shattered daydreams. Massive corporations squash entrepreneurial diversity and make it nearly impossible for startups and small businesses to compete.

According to Oxfam’s report, “The world’s largest food and beverage companies have a lot of power – but you have more. And because they’re not using theirs enough to help poor communities or the planet, you can use yours to change the way they do business.”

The Mechanics Of A Free Society

(Not the one we are living in.)

"Most people who have given any consideration to a moneyless, 'free world' society are already aware that we have the technology today to create a world of abundance without the constraints and inequality of the traditional market system, owing to how much human labour can now be efficiently automated.

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In my opinion, this kind of super-advanced “Star Trek” moneyless society is still quite a distance away – not because we lack the technology – but because we humans lack the openness and understanding required to make it work."